New Jersey Health Statistics 1996

MORTALITY1996

TRENDS
AND PATTERNS IN LEADING CAUSES OF DEATH

CEREBROVASCULAR
DISEASES

There
were 4,309 resident deaths from cerebrovascular diseases (stroke) in
1996 (Table M6). Although the number of deaths from stroke decreased
only 0.5 percent between 1995 and 1996 (Table M2), the total state age-adjusted
death rate from stroke was almost 20 percent lower in 1996 than it had
been ten years earlier (-19.3%). The death rates were lower in every
age group including a 25.5 percent decline among 45 through 64 year
olds. There were only 11 deaths from stroke in the resident population
under 25 in 1996; 86.5 percent of stroke deaths occurred in persons
65 and over.

TABLE
M6. RESIDENT DEATHS AND DEATH RATES FROM
CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASES BY AGE GROUP
NEW JERSEY, 1987 AND 1996

AGE
GROUP

1996

1987

PERCENT
CHANGE IN
DEATH RATE
1987-1996

NUMBER
OF DEATHS

DEATH
RATE*

NUMBER
OF DEATHS

DEATH
RATE*

UNDER
25

11

0.4

21

0.8

-47.3

25-44

108

4.2

116

4.7

-9.9

45-64

464

27.5

573

36.9

-25.5

65-84

2,193

223.6

2,371

263.5

-15.2

85
AND OVER

1,533

1,292.2

1,397

1,581.8

-18.3

NOT
STATED

0

N/A

1

N/A

N/A

TOTAL

4,309

23.0

4,479

28.5

-19.3

*DEATH
RATES ARE COMPUTED PER 100,000 AGE-SPECIFIC POPULATION
RATES PRESENTED FOR THE TOTAL POPULATION ARE AGE-ADJUSTED